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July 2001
The Politics of the Disability Rights Movement
This article offers a brief history of the disability rights movement and discusses the need for a counter-hegemonic politics of disability liberation.
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January 2001
Gauging Progress A Guidebook For Community Sexual Assault Programs and Community Development Initiatives
In an easy-to-read format with examples and exercises, this guidebook is intended to lay the groundwork for thinking about how to gauge progress, with an emphasis on how to conceptualize evaluation of a community development initiative.
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January 2001
A Lifetime Commitment to Violence Prevention: The Alameda County Blueprint
Publisher(s):This Blueprint is a framework to identify the range of roles and partnerships in which stakeholders can engage and activities that will prevent violence in all its forms, including child and elder abuse, intimate partner violence, date rape and sexual assault, suicide, youth and community violence, and hate violence.
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November 2000
Cultural Issues Affecting Domestic Violence Service Utilization in Ethnic and Hard to Reach Populations
This comprehensive report describes different cultural issues that may affect how different populations can and do use domestic violence services.
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July 2000
Disability Rights Movement Virtual Exhibition
Publisher(s): This virtual exhibit from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History explores key milestones in the disability rights movement.
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- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
- General Material
February 2000
Outreach to Underserved Communities
Publisher(s):This curriculum is designed to help domestic violence programs reach out to underserved communities in order to address the issues of diversity and of the limited access to quality services for battered women from those communities.
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December 1999
Population Reports: Ending Violence Against Women
Publisher(s):This publication discusses gender-based violence from a feminist-based, ecological perspective. It examines the dynamics of abuse, cultural context, impact on women's health & how health care providers can contribute to social change efforts.
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September 1999
Herstory of Domestic Violence: A Timeline of the Battered Women's Movement
Publisher(s):This document provides a detailed timeline of events related to the battered women's movement ranging from the year 753 B.C. through 1999.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
April 1999
Evaluating Coordinated Community Responses to Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This document explores mechanisms for coordination of community responses to domestic violence, examines research regarding various components of community responses, and highlights studies that evaluate the effectiveness coordinated community responses.
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January 1999
Community Development & Sexual Violence Prevention: Creating Partnerships for Social Change
Publisher(s):Created to assist community-based sexual assault programs with community development initiatives. Its theoretical basis is the work of Loftquist in 'The Technology of Prevention Workbook: A Leadership Development Program.'
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- Training Tools
January 1999
A Place to Start: A Resource Kit for Preventing Sexual Violence
Publisher(s):The Minnesota Center for Crime Victim Services and the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault, along with a workgroup of various MN sexual violence prevention organizations, agencies and individuals created this kit to support community sexual violence prevention efforts.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
January 1999
The Multilingual Access Model: A Model for Outreach and Services in Non-English Speaking Communities
Publisher(s):This project recruited and trained bicultural-bilingual advocates from area ethnic communities to provide assistance to victims and initiate outreach and awareness activities in their communities. Assistance to 6 provide